Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B

Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by throwaway613834 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @07:37PM (#15397138)

> My personal data is an asset. And it belongs to me.

Hm. How would this work for (say) a social security number? Does it belong to you? Does every number anyone chooses to identify you belong to you?

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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by specialist on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @08:14PM (#15397342)

Any non government entity storing data about me (PII and beyond) can only do so with my (revokable) permission and owes me my cut.

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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by mkempe on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @08:57PM (#15397528)

In Switzerland, anyone collecting data about other people must make a public declaration of that collection, and may not keep such records about people who disagree with being thus documented ("fiché").

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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by ben_w on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @03:15AM (#15398806)

There is a similar law in the UK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998

Which itself is based on an EU directive: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive

This is to be replaced with an updated version between now and Brexit (that’s just going to add to the fun!): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regu...

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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by beefhash on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @12:33AM (#15398278)

For the curious: There's an English translation of the Federal Act on Data Protection.

https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19920153/...

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